Mowing-machine attachment.



No. 662,442. Patented Nov. .27, lsoof mm. JENmNGs, .1.1.. HENRY & s. A. FnETwELL.

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UNITED STATES VPATENT DAVID MARTIN JENNINGS, JAMES LAWRENCE HENRY, AND SILAS ASHLEY FRETWELL, OF CENTRALIA, MISSOURI.

NIOWING-IVIACHINE ATTACHMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 662,442, dated November 27, 1900. Application filed October 2l, 1899. Serial No. 73 4,338. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern.: standard 7 is secured by means of the bolt Be it known that we, DAVID MARTIN .IEN- and nut 15. NINGS, JAMES LAWRENCE HENRY, and SILAS 16 is a slot cut in the forward face of the ASHLEY FRETWELL, citizens of the United casting, in which the end of the finger-bar is 5 States, residing at Centralia, in the county of secured by means of the set-screw 17, as seen 55 Boone and State of Missouri, have invented in Fig. 1. a certain new and useful Mowing-Machine 18 is alug depending from the casting, hav- Attachment, ofwhich thefollowingisaspeciing a hole 19, through which the end of the fication. top of the runner passes and is secured 1o This invention relates to attachments for therein by means of the nut 12. l 6o mowers or harvesters, and has for its object 2O is a nose-guard having a tapered reto produce a runner which can be suitably cess adapted to t over the nose of the fingersecured to the iinger-bar, whereby the cutter guard 1. Y is elevated for the purpose of cutting weeds 22 is a bore or opening formed through the 15 without cutting the growing grass, dto.; and nosepiece, in which the portion 10 of the run- 65 it consists in the parts and combinations of ner is secured by means of the set-screw 23. parts hereinafter pointed out. It will be observed that the runner is In the drawings, Figure l is a side elevaround at the portions 9, 10, and 11, and that tion of the improved runner attached to the from the portion 9 it is gradually tapered to zo finger-bar. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the the point 24, from which point it is flat. 7o same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of the The attachlnentis secured to the mower by clamp and runner, the runner being broken first slipping the casting 13 over the lingeraway. Fig. 4 is averticalsection of the nosebar 2, to which it is rmly secured by means clamp detached. Fig. 5 is a vertical section of the set-screw 17. The nosepiece 20 is then z5 on the lines 5- 5, Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a section slipped along on the portion l0 until the nose 75 on the line 6 6, Fig. 1; and Fig. 7 is a bottom of the finger-guard is seated snugly in the plan View of the runner. recess 2l, when the set-screw 23 is turned, l represents the usual iingerguard of a thereby firmly binding the nosepiece on the mowing-machine, and 2 the usual finger-bar, linger-guard, as shown in Fig. 1. 3o securedthereto by means of the guard-bolt 3. It is often desirable to cut weeds, dac., 8o

4 is the runner, which is flattened along from growing crops-aa for instance, grass; that portion which is usually in contact with but this cannot be done with the mowing-mathe ground, the rear portion of which is bent chine, as the cutter-bar is in its normal posiupward at right angles to form a standard 7, tion too low; but with this improved runner 35 provided with a series of bolt-openings S. attached to the ends of the linger-guard., as 85 As will be seen from Fig. 2, the standard 7 is shown in Fig. 1, lthe cutter-bar is elevated, of less width than the runner 4. The runner say, from six to ten inches from the ground is gradually tapered toward the forward end above the top of the grass. The adj ustment until it becomes perfectly round, as at 9, and may be regulated by means of the bolt 15 4o is bent backward to form a substantially and openings 8 in the standard 7. 9o straight portion 10, having a slight down- Having thus fully described ourinvention, ward inclination. The runner is then given what we claim, and desire to secure by Leta slight downwardl bend and curve from the ters Patent of the United States, isportion l0 to form the top portion 11, the l. Inamower the combination witha shoe, 45 end of which is provided with suitable screw of a nosepiece, a bore or opening in the same 95 threads. in which the shoe is secured, a recess in said 12 is anut secured on the end of the pornosepiece adapted to receive the nose of the tion 11. -nger-guard, and means for securing the rear 13 is a casting having ribs or lugs 14 on its end of the shoe to the mower, substantially 5o rear face, forming a groove, in which the as shown and described. roo

vstandard integral Withand bent upward at right angles to the runner a series of boltopenings in said standard of a clamp comprising ribs forming a groove on its rear face, in which the standard is adjustably secured by means of a bolt, a slot formed in the front face of the clamp, a set-screw extending into the same, and a lug depending from said clamp and provided with an opening in which the other end of the shoe is secured and means for securing the forward part of the shoe to the finger-guard, substantially as shown and described.

DAVID MARTIN JENNINGS. JAMES LAWRENCE-HENRY. sILAs ASHLEY 'FRETWELL Witnesses:

L. A. SAWYER, M. F. WILLs. 

